On 04-23-95 Chicago wrote to All...

 C > Newsgroups: sci.med
 C > Date: 24 Apr 1995 05:17:32 GMT
 C > Distribution: world
 C >  
 C > This work is still in progress.  I am trying to create a list of the
 C > ten worst illnesses in terms of chronicity, pain, and suffering.  The
 C > following have come up so far.  If anyone has descriptions or wants to
 C > elaborate or leave an e-mail address for people to contact please do
 C > so
 C > on the board or by e-mail to me.  My original intention was a top ten
 C > list of the worst diseases, causing hell on earth.
 C >  
 C > Reflex sympathetic dsytropy (candidates for morphine drips)
 C > chronic severe depression
 C > vestibular toxicity or vertigo (always in a state of sea sickness)
 C > rheumatoid arthritis  
 C > Life (a {*filter*}ly transmitted fatal illness, our humor entry)
 C > plantar fasciitis
 C > painful peripheral neuropathies (as seen in diabetes or metronidazole
 C > toxicity)
 C > Shingles
 C > Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 C > Fibromyalgia
 C > Endometriosis
 C > Recurrent Repiratory Papillomatosis (Many patients undergo hundreds of
 C > surgical procedures to remove growths from the airway just to breath.)
 C >  
 C > I would welcome debate on how to rank the top ten, and others that
 C > surely belong in the top ten.
 C > B.

I would add some cases of Lupus and of multiple sclerosis.

Take care.
Paul
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